Author: Paul
Date: 13:16:01 01/31/01
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On January 31, 2001 at 15:29:25, John Merlino wrote: >On January 31, 2001 at 15:17:38, Paul wrote: > >>On January 31, 2001 at 13:28:30, leonid wrote: >> >>>Hi! >>> >>>If you like to solve forced mate, here is the position. >>> >>>[D]2Q1N1qq/rQ2NPnP/r3qpqk/1Rb1n1qp/3N1nb1/1q1Q1B1R/2QB4/2R1K2R w - - >>> >>>Please indicate your result... even if your program failed. >>> >>>Thanks, >>>Leonid. >> >>Hi 2u2! >> >>I found about the same as Dann, a mate in 12, slightly different line tho: >> >>00:49 WM12 08 1. hxg8=N+ Qxg8 2. Nxg8+ Kh7 3. Nexf6+ Qexf6 4. Nxf6+ Qxf6 5. Qg8+ >>Kh6 6. Qxg6+ Nxg6 7. Rxh5+ Bxh5 8. Qxg6+ Qxg6 9. Bxf4+ Qg5 10. Nf5+ Kg6 11. >>Qxg7+ Kxf5 12. Qe4x >> >>It sure looks nice, and the knight promotion at the start is a great finishing >>touch! :) >> >>The next famous position is from the game Lasker,E - Thomas, don't know the >>exact year, but it must have been in the first half of the previous century: >> >>[D]rn3rk1/pbppq1pp/1p2pb2/4N2Q/3PN3/3B4/PPP2PPP/R3K2R w KQ - >> >>White to mate in 7 moves. The KQ at the end of the line means that White can >>still castle to both sides. Hope it isn't too easy! >> >>Groetjes, >>Paul > >Way too easy. ;-) > >Chessmaster 8000's results: > >Time Depth Score Positions Moves >0:00 1/3 0.66 4610 1. Nc5 g6 2. Nxg6 hxg6 3. Qxg6+ > Kh8 4. Qh6+ Kg8 5. Nxb7 Bxd4 >0:00 1/4 Mate07 13690 1. Qxh7+ Kxh7 2. Nxf6+ Kh6 3. Neg4+ > Kg5 4. f4+ Kh4 5. g3+ Kh3 6. Bf1+ > Bg2 7. Nf2# >0:01 2/5 Mate07 46219 1. Qxh7+ Kxh7 2. Nxf6+ Kh6 3. Neg4+ > Kg5 4. f4+ Kh4 5. g3+ Kh3 6. Bf1+ > Bg2 7. Nf2# >0:04 2/6 Mate07 141948 1. Qxh7+ Kxh7 2. Nxf6+ Kh6 3. Neg4+ > Kg5 4. f4+ Kh4 5. g3+ Kh3 6. Bf1+ > Bg2 7. Nf2# >0:11 3/7 Mate07 380683 1. Qxh7+ Kxh7 2. Nxf6+ Kh6 3. Neg4+ > Kg5 4. f4+ Kh4 5. g3+ Kh3 6. Bf1+ > Bg2 7. Nf2# > >jm Yeah, I remember trying these on the Chess Challengers & Novag Expert & various early chess programs on the pc a long time ago; if they found it at all, it took a long time! But nowadays it's not even one second! Ha!! Groetjes, Paul
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